XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Tang Huyen  wrote:   
   > On 11/4/2016 6:49 AM, Lee Dillion wrote:   
   >   
   >> Tang Huyen:   
   >   
   >>> Pretty grandiose, eh? But as the former contributor (now   
   >>> dead?) Theravad used to say, one should reach beyond   
   >>> one's grasp, which is what I am trying to do. Quixotic, but   
   >>> why not? At most, I fail.   
   >   
   >> Perhaps you should see the reaching as its own form of success?   
   >   
   > “if you could dream it, you could become it” -- Melania Trump,   
   > probably borrowing from one of her predecessors as Donald   
   > Trump's wife, see next.   
   >   
   > “I believed if you could dream it you could become it" -- Marla   
   > Maples.   
   >   
   > “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it,   
   > you can become it” -- William Arthur Ward.   
   >   
   > Tang Huyen   
   >   
      
   If you dream about it you're likely to sit and become a couch-potato   
   dreaming about it instead of becoming it.   
      
   The easiest way to become something is to find a path which makes it   
   necessary that you become it in order to survive.   
      
   Not for the faint-heearted imo.   I've heard it worked in ancient Greece   
   when an invading army burned its boats behind it wholesale.  Or maybe they   
   all died, I forget the details.  I think it's called do-or-die.  It's what   
   war is about, when people want to become right, and turn out to be dead   
   instead.  That's where Kings come from too, they're the ones who were right   
   and knew it thoroughly enough to put everything at risk.   
      
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